Dr. Mark Dean
Computer Scientist
| B.S., Electrical Engineering, 1979, University of Tennessee M.S., Electrical Engineering, 1982, Florida Atlantic University Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, 1992, Stanford University |
Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.
In 1997, Dean was awarded the Black Engineer of the Year Presidents Award
As of April 26, 2019, April 25 is now officially Mark Dean Day in Knox County, Tennessee
Dr. Mark Dean is considered a genius in mathematics computer inventors in the world. He is an American inventor and a computer engineer. He was part of the team that developed the ISA bus, and he led a design team for making a one-gigahertz computer processor chip.
He holds three of IBM’s original nine PC patents. He was named an IBM fellow, the first African-American ever to receive the honor. A year later, he was honored with the Black Engineer of the Year President’s Award and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. In 2001, he was tapped to be a member of the National Academy of Engineers. In 1995, Dr. Dean was named an IBM Fellow in 1995, one of only 50 active fellows of IBM’s 300,000 employees. Dean was the first African American to be honored with IBM Fellowship. in the year 2000, Mark discussed a hand held device that would be able to display media content, like a digital newspaper. A decade later, in August 2011, Dean stated that he now uses a tablet computer instead of a PC in his blog
In 1997 Dean was Vice President of Performance for the RS/6000 Division and, along with his colleague Dennis Moeller, Dean was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame For inventing “a system that has allowed PCs to become part of our lives.”
In 1999, as Director of IBM’s Austin Research Lab (in Austin, Texas), he lead the team that built a gigahertz (1000mhz) chip which did a billion calculations per second.
In 2001 he was elected member of the National Academy of Engineers (NAE).
In 2004, Dr. Dean was selected as one of the 50 Most Important Blacks in Research Science.
His most powerful quote is the following
“A LOT OF KIDS GROWING UP TODAY AREN’T TOLD THAT YOU CAN BE WHATEVER YOU WANT TO BE,” HE SAID. “THERE MAY BE OBSTACLES, BUT THERE ARE NO LIMITS.
| Name of Patent | Patent Number | Date of Patent |
|---|---|---|
| Color video display system having programmable border color | 4437092 | March 13, 1984 |
| Composite video color signal generation from digital color signals | 4442428 | April 10, 1984 |
| Microcomputer system with bus control means for peripheral processing devices | 4528626 | July 9, 1985 |
| Refresh generator system for a dynamic memory | 4575826 | March 11, 1986 |
| Data processing system including a main processor and a co-processor and co-processor error handling logic | 4598356 | July 1, 1986 |
| Computer system including a page mode memory with decreased access time and method of operation thereof | 5034917 | July 23, 1991 |
| Method and apparatus for selectively posting write cycles using the 82385 cache controller | 5045998 | September 3, 1991 |
| Bidirectional buffer with latch and parity capability | 5107507 | April 21, 1992 |
| Control of pipelined operation in a microcomputer system employing dynamic bus sizing with 80386 processor and 82385 cache controller | 5125084 | June 23, 1992 |
| System bus preempt for 80386 when running in an 80386/82385 microcomputer system with arbitration | 5129090 | July 7, 1992 |
| Microprocessor hold and lock circuitry | 5170481 | December 8, 1992 |
| Delayed cache write enable circuit for a dual bus microcomputer system with an 80386 and 82385 | 5175826 | December 29, 1992 |
| Data processing apparatus for selectively posting write cycles using the 82385 cache controller | 5327545 | July 5, 1994 |
| Connecting a short word length non-volatile memory to a long word length address/data multiplexed bus | 5448521 | September 5, 1995 |
| Microcomputer system employing address offset mechanism to increase the supported cache memory capacity | 5450559 | September 12, 1995 |
| System and method for prefetching information in a processing system | 5544342 | August 6, 1996 |
| Non-contiguous mapping of I/O addresses to use page protection of a process | 5548746 | August 20, 1996 |
| Self-time processor with dynamic clock generator having plurality of tracking elements for outputting sequencing signals to functional units | 5553276 | September 3, 1996 |
| Method and system for reading from a m-byte memory utilizing a processor having a n-byte data bus | 5603041 | February 11, 1997 |
| Method and system in a distributed shared-memory data processing system for determining utilization of nodes by each executed thread | 6266745 | July 24, 2001 |
| Method and system in a distributed shared-memory data processing system for determining utilization of shared-memory included within nodes by a designated application | 6336170 | January 1, 2002 |
| Data storage device for recording to magnetic thread | 7206163 | April 17, 2007 |
| Method and apparatus for constructing a neuroscience-inspired artificial neural network with visualization of neural pathways | 9753959 | September 5, 2017 |
| Method and apparatus for constructing, using and reusing components and structures of an artificial neural network | 10019470 | July 10, 2018 |
| Method and apparatus for providing random selection and long-term potentiation and depression in an artificial network | 10055434 | August 21, 2018 |
| Method and apparatus for constructing a dynamic adaptive neural network array (DANNA) | 10095718 | October 9, 2018 |
| Method and apparatus for providing real-time monitoring of an artificial neural network | 10248675 | April 2, 2019 |